I'm moving!

Have I updated this at all?  Do I ever update it?  What's happened to me?  Do you know anything that's been going on?  So much has been happening. 

Do you know that my parents are getting divorced?  We always knew my dad is a loser but after all these years, turns out he's also a lying scumbag.  He somehow managed to trick a 28-year-old girl (total white trash--I've met her) to fool around with him.  I strongly suspect she agreed to do it since she needs a job and he happens to be her boss.  Anyway in case you're a little slow, this means he cheated on my mom.  My mom who has put up with him being an inhumane asshole for almost four decades and who is the mother of his three kids and who who has inoperable cancer. 

Do you know that I started dating a guy in October in what was pretty much a fairy tale and that we quickly moved in together and that he turned out to be a basketcase of self-doubt and depression?  Did I mention passive aggression?  I loved him so much but I just couldn't deal with the stress of it.  He wasn't doing anything to help himself, even though I asked him to.  You can't be around that negativity all the time, ya know?  I was forced out of love with him.

You'd think that with these kinds of things going on, I'd be miserable.  But I'm not.  I'm still a happy person.  After all, my only real goal in life is to be happy.  Part of the responsibility of having such a goal is to rid myself of things that threaten my happiness.  As such, I got rid of the father and sadly I had to get rid of the boy. 

The apartment I got with the boyfriend is a very nice place but it's more space than I need and at $795 a month, it's more than I want to pay.  Since I moved to Philly, all I ever wanted was a studio.  A small space where I can store myself and my belongings.  So last week, I began using the internet to find out what kinda prices I can expect for studio apartments.  My lease isn't up until December so this research was just for informational purposes but I was contacted by a girl who's looking to upgrade from her studio to a 1BR.  (Ironically, she needs more room because her boyfriend is moving in.) 

We met this weekend and we like each others' apartments so in three weeks, I'm moving.  She lives on my street, less than one block south.  It's so amazing because I really want to live on Broad Street and I had no idea I could find a studio right here.  It faces the back so I lose my view of Center City but I'd stopped looking at it anyway.  I also won't be able to see the parade from my living room anymore...but that also means I won't have any of the road noise that comes with living on Broad Street.  I am totally cool with these trade-offs.  Plus, it's only $625!  It's $170 per month less than I was gonna be paying if I stayed in my current apartment.  Oh!  And check this out:  She has a portable washer & dryer in her apartment and she's giving them to me in exchange for my sofa and my dining room set!  I didn't have room for them anyway! 

Can you imagine?  A studio apartment for $625, right where I want to live, and with my very own washer & dryer!  Life is good!